The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude.
- Date:
- 1732
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ who is alfo called Jehovah, the incom- “ municable Name of God, with a ftrong €C Emphafis, [even] and can any thine be u plainer than this ?” Tis very plain indeed in the Tranflation, only it wants to be fo in the Original$ but to decide this Controverly, ,tis juft and equi¬ table to make Hose a himfelf the Umpire, and to chufe him foie Judge in this Cafe, I mean ’tis neceflary to examine his Expref- fions and his Stile, without which we run the Rifle of making a falfe Judgment. 1. I obferve, that the Book of Hose a is a Collection, of fev'eral loofe and feparate Sentences, which are independent on one another, and which were probably not de¬ livered at the fame time, as a careful Reader may obferve in many Places ; as for Inftance, Chap. x1. 12. Judah ruleth with God, and is faithful with the Saints; but few Lines after, Chap, xn, 2. he feems not to be as good as he ftiould be, God hath a Contro- verfy with him. In this Cafe the Axiom of the Jews is true, that in Scripture there's neither Prius nor Pojierius; how then can it beprov’d, that Hof xii. 3, 4, 5. is one and the fame continued Difcourfe ? Had it not been very proper to put a full Comma after thefe Words [Tea he prevail¬ ed over the ylngelj and then to have begun](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
